Medieval Britain 1066–1509: Church, State and Society

What this topic covers

1. 1Matilda and the succession crisis
2. 2Matilda's battles
3. 3Matilda's claim and campaign
4. 4Matilda's early life: Empress of Germany
5. 5Matilda's later life: supporting Henry II
6. 6The life of Matilda and medieval women
7. 7Eleanor of Aquitaine and the end of Henry II's reign
8. 8Henry II and the Angevin Empire
9. 9Henry II's church reforms
10. 10Henry II's legal reforms
11. 11How successful was Henry II as king?
12. 12The murder of Thomas Becket
13. 13Edward IV's stable second reign
14. 14Edward IV's unstable first reign
15. 15Edward V and Richard III
16. 16Henry VI and Richard of York
17. 17The rule of Margaret of Anjou and the rise of Edward, Duke of York
18. 18What the Wars of the Roses tell us about England in the fifteenth century
19. 191066 and claims to the throne
20. 20Norman changes to English land holding
21. 21Norman changes to the English landscape
22. 22Norman reforms to the English Church
23. 23The Battle of Hastings (1066)
24. 24The impact of the Norman Conquest on England
25. 25Edward I and Scotland
26. 26Edward I's failure to unite all of Britain
27. 27Edward I’s first campaign in Wales
28. 28Edward I: warrior and just ruler
29. 29Scottish resistance to Edward I’s rule
30. 30Welsh revolt and Edward I’s conquest of Wales
31. 31Richard II and the war in France
32. 32The causes of the Peasants' Revolt
33. 33The decline of the feudal system
34. 34The impact of the Black Death on England
35. 35The Peasants' Revolt
36. 36The Statute of Labourers and the response to the Black Death
37. 37Background to the Great Schism: the Roman Catholic Church
38. 38The Eastern Orthodox Church
39. 39The Great Schism
40. 40Churchmen in medieval Norwich
41. 41Life in medieval Norwich
42. 42Local elites in medieval Norwich
43. 43Trade in medieval Norwich
44. 44Treatment of the poor in medieval Norwich
45. 45Women in medieval Norwich
46. 461215 and Magna Carta
47. 47Henry III and the 1225 Magna Carta
48. 48The survival of Magna Carta
49. 49King John and the causes of Magna Carta
50. 50Simon de Montfort and the First Parliament
51. 51The First Barons' War and Magna Carta reissued